Nefarious fun at Woodville’s Treasure Island mid-winter dinner

The Holy Trinity Hall was decorated to imitate the Caribbean Islands on Saturday night and it attracted some nefarious pirates.

“What year was Diet Coke introduced to the World?“ was the tie-breaker that gave the winner of the Treasure Island Mid-Winter Dinner Quiz the spoils - those sitting at the table labelled St Kitts - on Saturday night in the Holy Trinity Hall.

The contestants were fed and interrogated by some friendly locals.

It came at the end of a night of fun and laughter when teams of eight, each allocated a table with a Caribbean Island name, fought out a six-round quiz and three challenges sandwiched between three courses of dinner.

The hearty crew threw themselves into the Treasure Island theme.

The quiz was the creation of the Woodville Anglican Holy Trinity Church led by Vicky Tomlinson, her mum Rosie McMillan, brother Brian McMillan and a group of supporters which was hosting its 17th mid-winter fundraiser for the community, this year to help upgrade the Holy Trinity Hall.

Each year this fundraiser has a theme and 2024 was Treasure Island, and although temperatures were far from tropical, most of the 70 guests came as pirates - hats, hooks, eye patches, beards, jackets and dresses/trousers, with the odd pistol and sword to look authentic.

The group from St Kitts won some pirate treasure...

There were questions about pirates, challenges such as walking the plank, tossing “pieces of eight” into a chest and sticking swords into a barrel.

And the tie-breaking question’s answer – 1982!